Common Law Crimes
The trespassory caption and asportation of the personal property of another
What is theft?
The intent to cause a serious, non-fatal injury and the victim dies as a result
What is intent to cause grievous bodily injury?
At common law, this would be the actual perpetrator.
What is principal in the first degree?
When a solicitee agrees to commit a crime, it ____ into conspiracy.
What is merges?
A failure of elements defense that requires an honest and reasonable belief for general intent crimes is known as what?
What is a mistake of fact defense?
The trespassory caption and asportation of the personal property of another with the intent to steal, accomplished by means of force or fear.
What is robbery?
This form of murder is most shown on TV. In fact, it is the form of murder being charged on a CEO assassin currently.
What is intent to kill murder?
In California, this would be someone who actively conceals, harbors, or aids a principal after the crime has been committed, with knowledge of such.
What is accessory?
What is an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy?
A defense that, in part, requires the defendant to prove they honestly believed they were in immediate danger and that they were not the initial aggressor.
What is perfect self defense?
The breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony therein.
What is burglary?
What is no social justification for the act?
A form of liability where the accomplice must knowingly and intentionally facilitate the commission of the crime, but does not have to have an additional purpose or intent.
What is general intent liability?
What is bilateral?
What is the necessity defense?
The killing of a human being by another human being with malice aforethought
What is murder?
An implied malice concept in which someone may be held liable for murder during the course of a felony that is ____?
What is inherently dangerous to human life?
Aider refers to the conduct of the accomplice, and abettor refers to this.
What is the mental state of an accomplice?
In terms of attempt, courts sometimes employ this test, that pretends the defendant's conduct is filmed without audio, and asks whether their conduct undoubtedly points to attempt.
A voluntary intoxication defense cannot be invoked for general intent crimes, but may be invoked for specific intent crimes for this specific reason.
What is for evidence on the sole basis to find whether the defendant formed a required specific intent?
The killing of a human being by another human being without malice
What is manslaughter?
In assessing an opponent to the felony murder, there are two approaches. This specific approach asks whether the felon set in motion the acts that led to the victim's death.
What is the proximate cause approach?
What is whether the additional crime a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the target crime?
This approach, not used in California, asks how far the defendant went toward the completion of the crime.
What is the MPC approach?
The entrapment defense has two approaches. This approach asks whether the defendant was predisposed to commit the offense.
What is the subjective approach?